IS North Korea just following our examples?

I found the opinions expressed in this BBC Article rather interesting. Specifically:

In these circumstances the North Korean regime would appear to have nothing to lose in building a weapon that the West has long declared as having a deterrent effect.

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The double standard and hypocrisy with which the current administration has been acting is appalling to me. For me, this article lays things out perfectly.

As a side, I was interested in this <i>Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies</i> that the author of the article is associated with. I went to their website, www.rusi.org, and found this:

Founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington and based in the centre of Whitehall, London, the RUSI is the oldest institute of its kind in the world. As a World Class Centre of Excellence, the RUSI seeks to be the 'Professional Forum in the UK for those Concerned with National and International Defence and Security'. Its purpose is to study, promote debate, report and provide options on all issues relating to national and international defence and security.

This article of course approaches the situation from an interesting viewpoint that, if undertaken by a rational nation, would have made for some interesting debate. However, given the DPRK's propensity to issue vile rhetoric on a daily basis (even before any of this started) and its general ruthlessness (witness blown up airliners and political executions, not to mention kidnappings), I would frankly have to say this article is more a jab at the Bush Administration as opposed to an authoritative treatise on cause and effect.

President Bush and his advisers have pursued a policy of military options against proliferation and yet in reality even baulked at seizing a cargo of Scuds en route to Yemen.

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Well, let's see...I live in the 21st Century, and we need Yemeni good will until we can get them to clean up their own mess. Seeing as how we need basing rights for the pending Second Gulf War, this is nothing more than an example of the time-honored "give a little, get a little." We can all understand this.

Well. Except for those of us browsing this forum from the DPRK or, apparently, RUSI.